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I have digested so many worming threads here but I still need help. I de-worm my girls 2x a year, and I rotate between safeguard, and valbazen. I individually syringe each bird, with doses recc in threads here. Then repeat 10 days later. In July, I noticed some large round worms in poop...

Such a thing? I have the bright tap, and it works, but chickens don't love it, and they make a b-line to any pool of water on my land when I open their gates. I think they would love to lap up water out of a cup. And, I would love to find a cup that will screw onto my 5-gallon cooler spout like...

I would love your input...I am getting new 4 week old chicks...they will be vaccinated against mareks, cocci, newcastle/bronchitis, and I will administer AE/Pox...what about coryza or mycoplasma? I know it sure does seem cost prohibitive seeing as you cannot reliably divide up the doses and save...

I got chicks from feed store and assumed they were vaccinated for mareks. They were not...they are on day 6...by the time I get it, it will be probably close to week 2 for them...too late? I just recently had a hen die of what sure seemed to be mareks. She is one of the last hens I had from my...

This is my first time with a broody! I have so many questions. :) I have a broody, and I think I may see if she stays broody, and if she does, I want to slip a couple chicks under her... 1. I have food in coop and water right outside--will she get off nest to eat/drink? If I leave here...

I have this hen that is just sorta sickly. She has never gained weight or grew like she should, always laid wrinkled or cracked eggs, yolks are very pale despite my best efforts, seems to have some leg weakness, and she is not real active...she has no lice or mites, and I have dewormed her...

Has this ever happened to you?! Last two days I did not get my usual 3 red star eggs. That was concerning as they lay every single day. Today, I decided to investigate, and when I got close, I noticed that one of my girls had dirt and sticks and bark and leaves sticking out all over her! I...

I have this hen that has had issues for about 6 months...I am not sure what is wrong with her. Obviously she is not imminently dying, but things sure do not add up, and I would love to help this girl. She was about 15 weeks old when I got her. I got her off CL, and she was spry and at the top...

I have an open run, so it gets rained on alot. I like mulch, but after a while, it seems to get compacted where girls cannot turn it over...I took a shovel to it, and the underside looks like dirt/compacted mud, and is stinky... what should I do? Shovel it out to dirt layer and start over...

My sweet barred rock is having trouble. She is eating and drinking and getting around okay, but... Yesterday I noticed that she was spending all day in and out of the nest. After sitting on the nest for over half and our, I went out there and monitored her. I could see her vent was large and...

We have 11 wooded acres...but somehow that is not enough-my girls have walked all the way to the other end of my property, up a steep hill that I cannot scale, through a web of briars, and right into a neighborhood that borders our land, and of course, they started scratching some poor lady's...

A few of my girls lay eggs with slight vertical ridges. You can barely feel them and only see them in good light. I got one today that is more obvious so i snapped a pic. This seems to happen after cold snaps, so I pondered if lack of water causes this(I break the ice up often but freezing...

What has been your experience? I ask because I had a curious thing happen. A couple weeks ago, we had a seriously cold snap for a few days. I was out there several times a day cracking frozen water, but even with that, I think they were drinking and eating less than they normally do. They mostly...

I got a started pullet from mcmurray yesterday(americana), and she has two broken toes. The second to last toe on each foot. What do I do? :/ Mcmurray has offered to replace her(I am going to update them as to her condition tomorrow)...but what I really want is for her to be better... She is...

My eggs are on left-pale yellow is my columbian wyandotte(this is several shades lighter than a conventional egg). Deep yellow is my red star(I would say this is a hair darker than a conventional egg). More orange egg on right is a store bought pasture raised egg. My CW yolk freaks me out. It...

I have both hardware cloth and chicken wire. Can I use chicken wire for some parts of the skirting? It will be 24 inches out, and I will cover it with a few inches of dirt. Is chicken wire ok for skirting? Or do I need to go get more hardware cloth?

We have seen the pictures-chickens cramped into tiny cages, not big enough for them to turn around. They have to be debeaked so they don't fight. Only a cage for a bottom, nothing soft under the fanny. :( Yet there are eggs. ?????? It truly baffles me. From my brief experience with chickens...

:( I have 4 red stars. 8 hens total. Today, during free range, one of the red stars was sitting in woods alone with tail down and sleeping. I found that odd. I picked her up and put her back in run. Later, she was doing same thing in the run. I picked her up to investigate. She was lethargic...

My sweet girls are laying. :) But, I cannot tell their eggs apart from my store bought pasture raised eggs...the color is a deep yellow-maybe you can say realllly light orange, but really yellow. They are a shade darker than conventional eggs but not by much... They need to free range more...

When it rains it pours-got 4 eggs today!!!! One on coop floor, then three under coop where they dust bathe! First egg we found two days ago was on coop floor. I need to entice them into nest boxes ASAP! I have an Amish style coop-4x8 with 4 built in nest boxes. The boxes are floor level. I have...